Cindi Thompson

Assistant Professor

Cindi teaches in both the MS Analytics and Computer Science
programs. Her research interests include text analytics, social
media analytics, and combining structured and unstructured data for
business applications. Cindi has experience in both industry and
academia, having led or participated in a variety of applied
R&D projects in multiple industries. Before coming to USF,
Cindi was part of Deloitte Analytics leading Text Analytics and
Social Media Analytics. She was previously at PwC as a Sr. Manager
and at University of Utah School of Computing as an Assistant
Professor. Cindi received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Computer Sciences
from the University of Texas at Austin and her B.S. in Computer
Science from North Carolina State University.